shelfy

adjective4

1. •
   Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles.

   • And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost — 1697
2. •
   Shelf-like; resembling or pertaining to a shelf.

   • His rosebud lay on shelfy breast,And deem it quite a fragrant jest. — 1898
3. •
   Relatively horizontal and flat with low friction.

   • For extensional-stress resolving 'shelfy stream' models, differences between model results were mainly due to the choice of spatial discretization. — 2013
4. •
   (no longer used) Full of strata of rock.

   • The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root. — 1609